Two weeks to go and the machine is starting to prepare the
narrative for how it is possible that John McCain won the 2008
Presidential election. With every poll showing an Obama lead of
anywhere from 10-14 points for the past few weeks, suddenly
today the Associated Press announced a new poll that shows the
race in a dead heat. Nonsense. With the backdrop of the Kennedy-Palast
reporting on how the GOP has already started the systematic
theft of the election this poll today is just the coverage they
need to pretend that the results of a McCain victory will be
legitimate. If McCain does indeed go on to steal the election,
no doubt his supporters will point to this bogus poll to refute
the other polls.

The talking points have been as inane as the alleged poll
results. Primarily, the talking points are that the bump is due
to the “strong” showing of McCain in the last debate and the
“Joe the Plumber” nonsense has “struck a chord.” You have got to
be kidding me. Every post debate poll clearly showed that Barack
Obama once again dominated John McCain in the last debate. This
was even stronger among undecided voters and independents. There
was no strong showing by McCain; he lost and everyone saw him
lose. By every count, including Fox News, he lost. Not only
that, but he lost all three debates as well as the Vice
Presidential debate. Throw in the fact that his recent Ayers
attack line and socialist charges were also polled to be losers,
the new AP poll simply defies logic.

And Joe the Plumber? C’mon guys; you have to do better than
this. It has now been revealed that Joe was probably a plant by
the McCain camp, which seemed obvious when he approached Obama
with stock GOP talking points and has now been exposed as a
McCain campaign donor. Even the argument fell apart – that an
average American making over $250,000 per year is somehow being
cast as being poor or a victim of Obama policy. The realities
are that Joe could possibly even do better under Obama than
McCain. But moving past the failed realities of Joe the Plumber,
the notion that this ridiculous ploy somehow moved a national
poll 10-14 points in one day, or one week is patently absurd.

A key “finding” is that the lead Obama had with voters making
under $50,000 has shrunk from 24% to just 4%. Really? How in the
world is that explained? People making under 50K now like the
idea of not getting a targeted tax cut and feel bad for
millionaires? Once again, absurd. Not to mention that this week
saw the incredibly strong endorsement for Obama by Colin Powell
on national television on Sunday. We are supposed to believe
that this had a negative effect?

Let’s look at this against the backdrop of every other poll out
today. The Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Obama up by 9
percentage points, while a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research
Center had Obama leading by 14. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News
poll, among the broader category of people registered to vote,
found Obama ahead by 10 points. So we have 9, 10, and 14;
numbers consistent with what has been the norm for a few weeks
now and this one rogue poll which says “no no, it is a
statistical dead heat.” Please, let’s be real.

This is all about the backdrop for the theft of the election.
Already states such as New Jersey are refusing to allow election
experts to monitor voting because they claim it is “too
important” and election. The crafted talking points on exit
polling is that people will be “too embarrassed” to admit they
did not vote for Obama. Exit polling is not some haphazard
venture. We use it to challenge the elections in other countries
as proof when election results have been tampered with. We only
had problems with exit polling when the Bush Administration came
into power. Suddenly the data collected is not reliable and
silly rationales are generated to explain away how someone like
John Kerry can win amongst men and women in Ohio, yet still lose
the overall count. Is there a third unknown gender demographic?
Instead of properly questioning why the vote totals do not match
the exit polling and we are talking by wide margins, the exit
polling is “adjusted” to reflect the vote tallies.

Then with the exit polling dismissed, election experts banned
from observing, shenanigans like in Colorado where minority
ballots are targeted for removal at a rate of at least 1 in
every 6, and the bogus “dead heat” poll in hand, the backdrop is
set. The machine’s media minions rush out to comment on how
legitimate everything was and next thing you know we are in a
McCain Administration with Obama and the democrats again
wondering what happened? What happened is the lazy democratic
congress did nothing about HAVA for the past two years and are
doing even less about the daily reporting of voter fraud. I mean
real voter fraud, not the silly ACORN nonsense that is being
thrown around. Now we see the bending of reality to absurd
levels. John McCain’s campaign has been nothing short of an
implosion every day. His Vice Presidential pick has been an
unmitigated disaster as brilliantly pointed out by Colin Powel
this past Sunday. His presentation on the economy has been
soundly rejected by the electorate. His dirty politicking has
been soundly rejected by the electorate. He is up to double
digits in verbal gaffes and bizarre comments. There are reasons
why Obama has had a consistent double digit leads. Yet amidst
all of this obviousness, the Associated Press wants us to
believe that up is down and the election is tied.

When recently asked about the lead Obama was enjoying, John
McCain smiled and responded, “We have him right where we want
him.” With the cover story being crafted now, maybe he was
right.

Authors Bio: Anthony Wade, a contributing writer to
opednews.com, is dedicated to educating the populace to the lies
and abuses of the government. He is a 41-year-old independent
writer from New York with political commentary articles seen on
multiple websites. A Christian progressive and professional
Rehabilitation Counselor working with the poor and disabled, Mr.
Wade believes that you can have faith and hold elected officials
accountable for lies and excess.

Anthony Wade?s Archive:

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